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The Relief of Amenhotep II Shooting Arrows at a Copper Ingot And Integration of foreigners in Egypt: the relief of Amenhotep II shooting arrows at a copper ingot and related scenes Abstract The relief of Amenhotep II shooting arrows at a copper ingot target has often been considered as propaganda of the king’s extraordinary strength and vigour. However, this work proposes that the scene took on additional layers of significance and had different ritual functions such as regenerating the health of the king and ensuring the eternal victory of Egypt over foreign enemies and the victory of order over chaos. Amenhotep II was shooting arrows at an “Asiatic” ox-hide ingot because the ingot would symbolize the northern enemies of Egypt. The scene belonged to a group of representations carved during the New Kingdom on tombs and temples that showed the general image of the king defeating enemies. Moreover, it was linked to scenes painted in private tombs where goods were brought to the deceased, and to offering scenes carved on the walls of Theban temples. The full sequence of scenes would describe, and ritually promote, the process of integration of the foreign element into the Egyptian sphere. Keywords: Amenhotep II stela, ox-hide ingot, scenes of goods brought to the deceased, offering scenes 1. Introduction In New Kingdom Egypt, different representations of the king defeating Egypt’s enemies and emphasising his role as military commander were depicted in tombs and on temple walls. The representations aimed to glorify the ruler by showing his superhuman 1 powers and to highlight the divine character of the king’s authority while supporting the Egyptian imperialist policy of conquest during the New Kingdom1. The scenes, carved in tombs and on temple walls, had an apotropaic function, i.e. a protective function against foreigners opposing the king and, by extension, opposing Egypt. Actually, the scenes depicted the triumph of order (represented by the king) over chaos (represented by the foreign enemies, the ‘others’). The king kept chaos out of Egypt by conquering, and scenes of the king smiting his enemies served as icons of legitimate violence against Egypt’s enemies2. The victory of the king over Egypt’s enemies was represented through different images, such as (1) The king smiting his enemies, an image that appeared in the Naqada II period and was carved on the walls of Egyptian temples until the Graeco-Roman period. In the depiction, the king wielded a mace in his raised right hand and seized the hair of the enemies with his other hand3; (2) The king as a sphinx defeating foes; (3) The king supervising the counting of captured enemies; (4) Rows of enemies brought by commanders to the presence of the king or brought by the king to the presence of a god. The adoption of the chariot warfare technology at the start of the New Kingdom probably boosted variations of the scenes representing the victory of the king, which were later repeated during the entire New Kingdom4. In such scenes, the king on a chariot was shooting arrows either at a group of foreign enemies, a foreign city, animals in hunting scenes or, as in the Amenhotep II stela, at a copper ingot target. As the other scenes representing the victory of the king over the 1 Śliwa, “Some Remarks concerning Victorious Ruler Representations in Egyptian Art,” 97-117. Cornelius, “Ancient Egypt and the Other,” 326-330. 2 Cornelius, “Ancient Egypt and the Other,” 326. 3 Cornelius, “Ancient Egypt and the Other,” 326. 4 Spalinger, “Egyptian New Kingdom triumphs: a first blush,” 95-112. Swan Hall, The pharaoh smites his enemies: a comparative study, 1-55. 2 enemies, the chariot scenes aimed to emphasise the military or athletic skills of the king and the victory of order over chaos5. The main objective of this work is to propose that scenes where the king shoots arrows at copper ingots also incorporate the element of the king’s victory over Egypt’s enemies and are intimately linked to the concept of Egyptian kingship during the New Kingdom. 2. The target on the Amenhotep II stela: the foreign element The aim of this work is to interpret the scene carved on a red granite stela that was found inside the third pylon of the Karnak temple6 and showed Amenhotep II on a chariot shooting arrows at a target (Fig. I). In the relief, the target was a copper ingot nowadays known as ox-hide ingot due to its shape. The Great Sphinx Stela of Amenhotep II described the targeted ingots and hinted at their foreign provenance: “he [Amenhotep II] found erected for him four targets of Asiatic copper, of one palm in thickness”7. The Great Sphinx Stela also described how the king was able to pierce the ingots with arrows shot from his bow while standing on a galloping chariot8. The scene was interpreted as an expression of the strength and athletic capabilities of Amenhotep II9. FIG. I. In the last forty years, the actual geographical provenance of ox-hide ingots has been the object of several studies based on the determination of the lead content of ox- 5 Sacco, “Art and imperial ideology: remarks on the depiction of royal chariots on wall reliefs in New- Kingdom Egypt and the neo-Assyrian empire’, 212. 6 Chevrier, “Rapport sur les travaux de Karnak (novembre 1926 – mai 1927),” 142. Chevrier, “Rapport sur les travaux de Karnak (1927-1928),” 126. 7 Varille, “La grande stèle d’Aménophis II à Giza,” 35. Tildesley, Egyptian games and sports, 37. 8 Varille, “La grande stèle d’Aménophis II à Giza,” 35. 9 Van de Walle, “Les rois sportifs de l’ancienne Égypte,” 234-257. 3 hide ingots found in different sites around the Mediterranean10 and, in particular, in shipwrecks off the coasts of south Anatolia and Israel11. The analysis of the chemical and lead isotopic composition of the only single fragment of an ox-hide ingot found in Egypt (in Qantir Pi-Ramesses) established that it was made with copper from the Apliki mines in central Cyprus12. The chemical analysis of ox-hide ingots found outside Egypt confirmed that the ox-hide ingots traded in the Mediterranean during the New Kingdom came mainly from Cyprus13, although the Lavrion mines near Athens could be the source of some ox-hide ingots of the XV-XIII centuries BC14. Some fragments of ox-hide ingots found in shipwrecks (XIIIth century BC) did not proceed from Cyprus and are believed to be a part of a minor trade that did not involve the governments. In spite of the Cypriot (or Greek) origin of the copper used for fabricating the ingots and the place of manufacture, Syrian merchants could have monopolised their trade15 and ingots could arrive to Egypt also with diplomatic or prestige purposes. Ox-hide ingots were depicted in Egyptian tombs and temples during most of the New Kingdom. The first depiction in Egypt was found on the walls of the TT119 tomb (of an unknown official who lived during the reigns of Hatshepsut and Thutmosis III). The last representations dated back to the reign of Ramses III. Two of them were carved 10 Stos-Gale, “Isotope archaeology: reading the past in metals, minerals, and bone,” 82. Gale and Stos-Gale, “Bronze Age copper sources in the Mediterranean: a new approach,” 11-15. Stos-Gale, Maliotis, Gale and Annetts, “Lead isotope characteristics of the Cyprus copper ore deposits applied to provenance studies of copper oxhide ingots,” 83-89. 11 Stos, “Across the wine dark seas… sailor tinkers and royal cargoes in the Late Bronze Age eastern Mediterranean,” 163-170. Galili, Gale and Rosen, “A Late Bronze Age Shipwreck with a Metal Cargo from Hishuley Carmel, Israel,” 2. 12 Pusch, “High temperature industries in the Late Bronze Age capital of Piramesse (Qantir): II. A quasi- industrial bronze factory, installations, tools and artifacts,” 121-132. 13 Stos-Gale, Maliotis, Gale and Annetts, “Lead isotope characteristics of the Cyprus copper ore deposits applied to provenance studies of copper oxhide ingots,” 83-87. 14 Stos, “Across the wine dark seas… sailor tinkers and royal cargoes in the Late Bronze Age eastern Mediterranean,” fig. 3. 15 Merrillees “Egypt and the Aegean,” 149-158. Rehak “Aegean natives in the Theban tomb paintings: The Keftiu revisited.” 39-51. 4 on the walls of his funerary temple at Medinet Habu16, and a third one was painted on the walls of his tomb in the Valley of the Kings (KV11)17. The features and dresses of the bearers of ox-hide ingots, together with the texts accompanying the depictions in private tombs, reflect the provenance of the ingots from the Egyptian point of view. The images convey three different sources, which coincide with those determined by modern techniques: Greece, Cyprus and Syria. For example, in the tomb of Useramun (TT131), the text accompanying a scene where goods containing ox-hide ingots are offered to Useramun reads, “Reception of the booty that His Majesty brought from the Northern countries, from the confines of Asia, and from the islands amidst the sea”. In one register in the Rekhmire tomb (TT100), men carrying ox-hide ingots were “the chiefs of the land of Keftiu (and) the islands that are in the Great Sea”, and in another register “the chiefs of Retenu and of the furthest Asia”. On another wall of the Rekhmire tomb, a text accompanied a depiction of metallurgical work done with the “Asiatic copper that the King [Thutmosis III] obtained after His victory in the land of Retenu in order to build the two doors of the Amun Temple in Karnak”. In addition, other Egyptian texts carved on temples listed huge numbers of copper ingots coming from Alashiya (Ramses II) or brought by the king as booty from Retenu (Thutmosis III)18.
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